There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.